Business Management

Introduction
Dramatic advances in technology, globalization, changes in social values, changes in the workforce, and other environmental shifts have created a challenging environment for not only organizations but for the employees within these organizations with the title of “manager” (Daft, 2012).
We have discovered thus far in this course that managers must come tooled with various characteristics and traits to be able to overcome the many obstacles and dilemma that must be faced in the 21st Century workforce. Daft (2012) states that, “Although some management theorists propose a long list of skills, the necessary skills for managing a department or an organization can be summarized in three categories: conceptual, human, and technical”. Although the degree of which the above mentioned skills will be used varies dependent on the level of management within an organization, it is still very important that a manager possesses these skills to perform to the best of their ability.
To assess where we are with the three mentioned management skills, we were asked to complete a Management Aptitude Questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of 18 situational style questions of which we were to answer them as best and as honestly as we could. The purpose of completing this survey was to give us an individualized report that would tell us what areas we were strong or weak in as it related to the three management skills: conceptual, human, and technical with the plan to identify areas of opportunity for us as managers.

Results After taking the survey, it was surprising to see the end results. In the following three management skills, I scored the following: Conceptual skills: 28; Human Skills: 26; and Technical Skills: 14. This totally showed and displayed the traits associated with a Top Manager as I usually was in many of my previous roles. Daft…...

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